Beautiful Patterns emerged in 2017 as a collaborative initiative between MIT in the US and Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. The goal of the Beautiful Patterns bootcamp is to encourage more female high school students to take an interest in university careers in STEM areas, especially in Engineering fields. The original objective of reducing the professional gender gap has been preserved in all editions of Beautiful Patterns, always upholding the idea that in several Latin American countries or those with modest economic development, at least half of the human capital, mostly constituted by women, is not being addressed and developed at the university and professional level. Over the years, Beautiful Patterns has been successfully organized in both in-person and virtual formats, the latter emerging during the Covid-19 pandemic. To date, Beautiful Patterns has had around 6,000 participants, mainly from Mexico, in at least 11 different cities each year and in 16 different countries in its virtual format. About 1,400 female engineering students have participated in organizing and teaching courses at this bootcamp. For the 2023 edition of Beautiful Patterns at Tecnologico de Monterrey Campus Aguascalientes, a decision was made to make additional efforts and create conditions for high school female students from highly marginalized areas to participate. We were able to include female students from places where prostitution and domestic confinement are the only alternatives for the future of the young Mexican women who live there, in a context of drug addiction and family disintegration. Additionally, successful female engineers from various companies interacted with the participants while the general intention of the bootcamp was to make an impact on them through the concept of role modelling. This article will present the development and figures of the impact achieved with the bootcamp in its 2023 Edition.

Our first objective in this article is to explain the educational innovation of this bootcamp in its totally digital version for the first time, a version used during the pandemic in 2021 and that we are confident will serve as a basis for carrying out remote bootcamps, always with the idea of promoting the inclusion of more women in IT careers and STEM areas, connecting female high school students with engineering students from prestigious universities and with female engineering professionals. The second objective of this article is to offer certain figures to measure the geographical and human scope of Beautiful Patterns 2021 in Latin America. The third objective is to present the exit study of the Beautiful Patterns 2021 bootcamp. The study followed 500 participating girls from different countries to determine if this bootcamp had created an impact on their perception of the IT, engineering, and STEM areas, considering the diagnosis made before the start of the bootcamp. Finally, we will outline the quantitative strategies being followed to see the long-term impact of the program.

Intended for Mexico, the “Beautiful Patterns” young-women STEM bootcamp was created in 2017 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, finding a strategic partner in the Tecnológico de Monterrey, a recognized Mexican university. The idea behind “Beautiful Patterns” is promoting the STEM majors as a future, promising and country-needed option for high school women students in economies like Mexico's where only 17% of the graduated engineering population are women. In 2021, this bootcamp will become international, including instructors and participants from Canada and some Latin American, European and Asian countries. In 2019, after having taken part in this program, 89% of the student participants stated that they had a different perspective about engineering and information technologies recognizing women's potential in STEM areas. The 2020 edition was canceled due to the pandemic of CoVid-19. In this paper we present all our results and conclusions of the 2019 implementation in Aguascalientes Campus of Tecnológico de Monterrey.

In this paper, an analysis of the student's perception regarding the implementation of the Tec21 Educational Model in the School of Engineering and Sciences at Aguascalientes Campus of the Tecnológico de Monterrey is presented. The Tec21 Educational Model was created to respond not only to the demands of the productive and research sectors, but also to respond to the inherent needs of a changing world. It offers a greater connection with the real world and sought more flexibility for the students. This article also explains its characteristics and how the need for a change in education may be possible. Results of a series of studies show that the Tec21 Model of the Tecnológico de Monterrey satisfy the requirements that our environment demands today. Our analyzes allowed us to establish the need for a project to consolidate the educational model, offering in this article an operational proposal. With this work, we hope to contribute to the implementation of the Tec21 Educational Model always in search of the best impact results.